Caribou Coffee - Changing to L'Evento Caffé

[eomaha]

Anyone know what they're building as an 'outparcel' at Baker's Square?

[UNOstudent]

would it be scooters java? there is another another small building under construction in the canfields parking lot

[Omaha Cowboy]

It wont be a Scooters as they already have a location right across the street..

(we're talikng about 132nd and West Center. The Bakers Square location)..

I too have been wondering about this construction. I poked around and got no hint..

Maybe it will be another Caribou Coffee location..Hope so..

..Ciao..LiO....Peace

[Greg S]

Anybody heard anything about a Scooter's at 156th and Fort in the new strip mall?

[lonnie]

Anyone know what they're building as an 'outparcel' at Baker's Square?

Just a WAG, but I wouldn't be suprised if that is a Chipotle as well.

I heard they were going into the Omaha market big time.

[Omaha Cowboy]

FYI..

At Bakers Square, the new store construction IS a Chipotle (132nd & West Center)..

..Ciao..LiO....Peace

[Coyote]

As discussed on another thread:

Omaha Caribou Coffee Stores Closing

Caribou coffee has four locations in Omaha and all of them suddenly closed Sunday.  Employees said there was no warning and that upper management came in Sunday afternoon and delivered the news.

CEO Michael Coles said, “We regret that we will no longer be offering Caribou Coffee directly through our retail stores in Omaha. Unfortunately, when stores are underperforming, we have to make the tough decision to close our stores.”

[TitosBuritoBarn]

Sounds like another national chain falling to a local power house (Scooters) and a national power house (Starbucks) where three's a crowd. It seems like that tends to happen every once in a while. Surely that is why we no longer have Circuit City and perhaps Albertson's.

[Stargazer]

I noticed Latte Lizard is dominating the market in Columbus.

[Ingersoll1978]

Jesus, you about gave me a heart attack!  :o  

Sometimes, when these stores close like that, they do the same thing over here in Des Moines (like when Buca di Beppo closed).  I just assumed ours had done the same...but after looking at their website, all the Iowa stores are still there.  I have a Caribou one block from our place...so it would be greatly missed!

[Stargazer]

Yeah, we're one tough coffee market to grind.

[Ingersoll1978]

Scooters made an attempt to open several stores over here...and have only succeeded with one (across from Jordan Creek).  They have had a sign on another location for a year or two...with no progress the last time I checked.  I figured we'd have 5 or 6 of them by now.  Oh well...I'm more of a Starbucks person anyway (unless I don't feel like going downtown...so I'll head to the Caribou instead).  [/justify]

[Greg S]

Scooter's seems to be doing real well in KC.  I was surprised how many I saw down there this weekend.

I'm hoping Scooter's takes over the Caribou location on West Maple.

Greg

[Coyote]

Caribou Coffee cafes may have new owner, name

Omaha restaurateur Jaime Suárez this morning was touring the closed Caribou cafes at 17560 Wright St., 1100 S. 72nd St., 15805 West Maple Road and 14121 Q St. He said he hopes to take over leases at those spaces and launch his own coffeehouse concept, L'Evento Caffé, in the next 10 days.

Suárez, owner of several Omaha-area Subway and Taco Del Mar restaurants, said he also hopes to hire at least some former Caribou employees. He will hold a meeting at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Subway near 156th Street and West Maple Road for those who lost their jobs.

[Brad]

That didn't take long.

[StreetsOfOmaha]

Well, I'm disappointed that Caribou will be leaving the Omaha market, especially when they never got around to opening any cafes in urban Omaha (...could be why they failed here... ), but I'm glad that someone is taking them over and launching a new concept.

[nativeomahan]

Let's hope this pans out.  The problem is that all 4 of the locations were under performers for a major corporation not used to failure.  Whether someone else can turn them around is open to question.  Much of Omaha is saturated with coffee stores.

[TitosBuritoBarn]

Ah yes, another local entrepreneur coming in to serve a market that the national chains couldn't master.

[theurge]

New Coffee Shop Wants To Take Up Caribou Locations, Employees

OMAHA, Neb. -- A new ownership groups wants to take over Omaha's Caribou Coffee locations.

Employees of Caribou Coffee told KETV NewsWatch 7 on Monday that all of that company's Omaha locations were closed on Sunday, leaving them without jobs.

On Tuesday evening, a company called Jasur Group said it wants to open new coffee shops in all of the Caribou locations, and keep the same employees.

"The employees that were working at Caribou -- they were just left out in the dark, from the immediate closing and sudden closing of Caribou, and we were trying to open as soon as possible -- hopefully by the end of the week," said Jasur's Jaime Suarez.

The new coffee shop is called L'Evento Caffe.

Suarez said that a meeting will be held for former Caribou employees who are interested in working at the new coffee spot at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Subway at 156th Street and West Maple Road.

[Brad]

L'evento Caffe Coffee Closed

http://www.omaha.com/article/20090807/E ... /708079863

L'evento Caffe Coffee, the local coffee chain that emerged in 2008 after Caribou Coffee pulled out of the Omaha market in late 2007, has closed all five of its Omaha-area locations.

Marketing director Adrian Suarez said the family-owned company decided to pull the plug in mid-July. He blamed the closure on a slowing economy that forced patrons to drink fewer and less expensive drinks at the coffeehouse.

[Coyote]

That quickly - and I never got to try the place out.